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London, United Kingdom

• Upgraded London computer room Wide Area Network to fibre, linked to new computer room in Newcastle
• Replaced London server and firewall appliances with two physical servers, one in London, replica in Newcastle
• Standardised desktop estate to Windows 7 professional and applications image
• Virtualised application servers and remote access desktops
• Moved London computer room from old office building to new office building
• Upgraded telephony to VOIP

London, United Kingdom

• Founding director and team leader delivering IT, technical and engineering designs and solutions
• Part of management team that grew annual turnover from £0 to £5M
• Negotiated and delivered contracts with values from £300K to over £3M
• Jointly researched improved construction and control methods leading to 8% reduction in energy consumption
• Consulted with care industry professionals developing increased opportunities and a higher profile for the firm

London, United Kingdom

• Led four teams delivering infrastructure solutions to clients
• Negotiated and delivered support and installation contracts from £50K to £250K
• Led testing and approval of emerging hardware and software

Bedford

• Key part of the IT management team that moved UK IT infrastructure time from 85% firefighting to 85% productivity
• Team reduced annual IT overhead from £60M to £50M
• Created the corporate IT security management department, its terms of operation and scope of authority, 80K users
• Led infrastructure development and pilot project for warehouse barcode automation
• Project Managed barcode infrastructure rollout to UK and major European warehouse
• Led teams delivering infrastructure and application solutions to European business centres

Various

Led the technical development and implementation of various client infrastructure and application projects.o Developed network infrastructure at Exel Logistics JBA System 21 pilot project (OS/400, RPG, WIFI)o Led team analysing existing UK Netware 3.11 infrastructure in preparation for NDS upgradeo Development of global Motor Industry information update.

Port Skewett

Lead a team responsible for the delivery and maintenance of Alpha/VMS cluster based services. o Designed and implemented the software to allow the cluster to page the duty programmer automatically (BASIC, VMS, DCL, OPCOM and ROSS)o Managed the application and networking services including (ORACLE, ROSS, SYBASE, EDI, TCP/IP, DECNET and PATHWORKS) and the.

London, United Kingdom

System Manager responsible for VAX/VMS based services. o Designed and implemented the VAX cluster needed to facilitate the merger of PaineWebber and Kidder Peabody trading and accounting systems.o Managed the operation and development of system software.o Managed connectivity (DECNET, PATHWORKS, NT, NOVELL, and NFS) to user workstations.o Managed.

London, United Kingdom

Tasked with integrating multiple VAX BTAS system instances. o Designed and implemented a hierarchical file read and write structure allowing the integration of the master files of numerous VAX BTAS application systems (VMS logical names, DCL and RMS)o Designed and implemented BTAS subsystem to allow same day corrections to trade records. This was built.

London, United Kingdom

Managed the design and maintenance of system and application infrastructure. Appointed and led consultants as and when required. While at the Autodrome learnt a lot about team management. Applying this and existing IT skills was able to move £6M in stock off the showroom floor to cash at bank with no change in showroom presence. Also drove a lot of very.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible with six others for the day-to-day maintenance, user support and development of in-house and ‘bureau’ VAX BTAS and XTAS systems. o Managed the customisation and implementation of XTAS for new clientso Designed and supervised development of constrained trade ticket editoro Designed and developed enhancements to ‘baseline’ XTAS systemso Designed.

Dublin

Employed to redevelop the swaps system. o Revised, enhanced, tested and re-implemented bespoke Interest rates, currency swaps and future rate agreements system. (VAX, RDB, RMS, TDMS, ACMS and COBOL)o Designed and implemented secure key generation algorithm for fund transfer verificationo Made various significant performance enhancements to overall system.

London, United Kingdom

Hired as a junior programmer to be part of the team maintaining and developing the ‘bureau’ systems. o Migrated PDP-11 BTAS to VAX BTASo Customised and implemented BTAS and XTAS for new clientso Automated XTAS/ BTAS price update system. The work I did here gave me the insight to later develop IFCo Revised and enhanced the compile and link environment to.

Information Security

I helped design and test the CISSP course for teaching by ACG Training

Mqseries Management

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